One of the things that I was looking at in my post on Azure Mobile Services the other day was the idea of creating a ‘virtual table’ or a view which represented a join across two tables. For example, imagine I have a new service mtaultyTest.azure-mobile.net...

I wrote my first Windows 8 code which connected to SkyDrive the other day so I thought I’d share in case it helps anyone who’s doing a similar thing. The main documentation set for Live is on the web so drop that into your favourites if you’re going to be working...

The first preview of Windows Azure Mobile Services came out the other week. Over on YouTube , Scott Guthrie gives a great overview of what Mobile Services provides in the preview and on the new Mobile Services site you can get a whole bunch more detail about...

Quick caveat – these are just my thoughts, not some new terminology from Microsoft or some kind of review of Windows 8 or any specific device. I wrote a little once before about the idea of the ‘ contextual PC ’ – the idea that I can have a modern PC that adapts...

One of the common layouts that you see in Windows Store applications is one that looks a little like the one below; If I’m data-binding to a set of items that I’ve slotted into my DataContext with something like; this.DataContext = from i in Enumerable.Range...

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